Short Films Screening during the Filmbase 25 Anniversary
Filmbase is delighted to screen a selection of Irish short films as part of the 25th anniversary. These films will screen on a loop in the gallery space from 11am so pop by and check out just a small snapshot of the fantastic Irish short films on offer!
Deep End Dance
6.5min | colour | English | 2010
Choreographed by David Bolger
Directed by Conor Horgan
Produced by Martha O'Neill
A man dances underwater with his 76-year-old mother.
(Best Short Film, Irish Film Festival, Boston)
Jellybaby
10min | colour | English | 2005
Directed by Rob and Ronan Burke
Written by Pierce Ryan
Produced by John Wallace
Jack and Jill had a great relationship. Then they had a baby.
(Best Short, Celtic Film and Television Festival)
Mister Heaney: A Wee Portrait
5.5min | animation | English | 2010
Directed by David Quin
Nobel Prize winner, Mister Seamus Heaney, speaks of brambles and hairdressing.
(Best Animation, Galway Film Fleadh)
Mr. Foley
5min | colour | English | 2009
Directed by D.A.D.D.Y.
Written by Mike Ahern
Produced by Mary McCarthy
Holy Moley! Mr. Foley wakes up in hospital to find sound effects him and he doesn't know the score.
(Best Short Film, San Francisco United Short Film Festival)
Terminal Communication
3min | colour | English | 2008
Written and Directed by Michael Fortune
Terminal Communication is a fixed-frame work featuring the actions of drivers as they approach a badly
signed junction leading into Rosslare Harbour ferry port, in County Wexford.
(Honorable Mention: Special Jury Mention, FatFilmFest)
Out of the Blue
8min | colour | English | 2008
Written and directed by Michael Lavelle
Produced by Simon Conneally
A lonely man's life is suddenly transformed when he discovers an old TV floating in the sea.
(Best International Short Film, London Independent Film Festival)
Give up yer aul Sins
5min | animation | English | 2002
Directed by Cathal Gaffney
Produced by Cathal Gaffney and Darragh O'Connell
A schoolgirl, interviewed for television, tells a somewhat unconventional version of the story of John the Baptist, which we see illustrated.
(Nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the Academy Awards)
The Herd
4.5min | colour | English | 2008
Directed by Ken Wardrop
Produced by Andrew Freedman
A farmer finds a deer befriending his herd of cattle.
(Nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards)
Free Chips Forever!
12min | colour | English | 2009
Written and directed by Claire Dix
Produced by Freya MacKenzie
Becky and her Dad are invincible chip robbers. Nothing can stand in their way. Nothing that is except her brother Tom.
(Best Irish Short, Cork Film Festival)
Why the Irish Dance that Way
5min | colour | English | 2006
Directed by Nick Kelly
Choreographed by Brendan Galvin
Produced by Seamus Byrne
This short film seeks to answer one of the most vexed questions of modern cultural life: how did the Irish come to dance in that extraordinary foot-fidgeting way?
(First Prize, Chicago Irish Film Festival Jury Awards)
Colour Contamination
3min | animation | English | 2008
Written and Directed by Louise Bagnall
Produced by Niamh O'Donoghue
A clean cut business man who is averse to all things colourful enters a waiting room filled with colourful plastic chairs and is forced to confront his worst fears.
(Official Selection, Galway Film Fleadh)
Crossword
14min | colour | English | 2010
Directed by Vincent Gallagh
Written by Hugh Travers
Produced by Claire McCaughley
On a significant day in her life, Heather a lonely woman who finds solace in the daily crossword finds that the answers to the clues are all around her.
(Best Short Award, Waterford Film Festival)
Useless Dog
5.5min | colour | English | 2005
Directed by Ken Wardrop
Produced by Andrew Freedman
A witty documentary about an inept but lovable farm dog.
(Best Short Documentary, Sligo Film Festival)
Moore St Masala
5min | colour | English | 2009
Written and directed by David O'Sullivan
Produced by Jason Doyle
Shop clerk, Baba, falls for the sexy estate agent across the street. When he sells her lunch, she steals his heart.
(Nominated Best Short Film, Irish Film & Television Awards)
Yu Ming is Ainm Dom
13min | colour | Irish | 2003
Written and directed by Daniel O'Hara
Produced by Grainne O'Carroll
Bored with his life in China, shop worker Yu Ming decides to visit a random country and picks Ireland by spinning a globe.
(Best Irish Short, Cork International Film Festival)
For more info on all of the other events taking place during Filmbase 25 please click HERE.
For more info on Filmbase 25 please contact Clare Creely at Filmbase on clare filmbase.ie.
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